Our Head of ESG, Hashem Abdi reports back on his time at COP29.
The UN’s annual climate summit, 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, brought together country representatives to strategize on ambitious plans to reduce emissions, address the impacts of the climate crisis, measure progress and increase funding to tackle climate change.
Within the current transitional period of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) running until 31 December 2025, companies are facing various difficulties in their reporting obligations, including hurdles in gathering data on embedded emissions from their third-country suppliers.
As a rule, in the absence of actual data on emissions embedded in CBAM goods to
In an interview given to the French weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche on October 20, French Prime Minister Michel Barnier proposed adopting a “sort of moratorium” to delay the entry into force in France of specific texts, including the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSRD).
In the meantime, the French Senate adopted on October
On 16 October 2024, the French Anti-Corruption Agency (AFA)[1] published guidance intended to help entities, subject to the Corporate Reporting Sustainability Directive (CSRD)[2], report on their antibribery and corruption (ABC) compliance program.
Under the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)[3] G1 – Business conduct
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) Implementation Act was debated in the German Parliament (Bundestag) at first reading on 26 September 2024. The aim is to fulfil the European Commission requirements within the timeframe given by the infringement notice.
The CSRD requires EU Member States to transpose the directive into national law. In Germany, the
The European Commission has called on 17 Member States to fully transpose the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). It has opened infringement procedures by sending a letter of formal notice to Member States (Belgium, Czechia, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Cyprus, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Finland) for
The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) aims to foster sustainable and responsible corporate behavior in companies’ operations across their global value chains. This is to ensure adverse human rights and environmental impacts are scoped and addressed both inside and outside Europe. The harmonised legal framework in the EU seeks to create legal certainty and
Georgie Messent and Thomas Delille joined ICIS – Chemical Podcasts this week to discuss how Europe’s beleaguered petrochemical industry could see its fortunes improve if the EU’s new industrial policy proposals are adopted, along with a fair regulatory framework. Listen to the podcast to hear them discuss:
In the European Union, the UK and elsewhere, key questions are being asked by EU-based companies caught by the CSRD in their financial year 2025, as well as entities with parent companies outside of the EU that are caught by CSRD.
The CSRD’s requirements will apply to companies
On 28 June 2024, the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) – was published in the Official Journal of the EU. Future ecodesign requirements stemming from the ESPR will impact global clients’ supply chains by requiring compliance with new sustainability standards. The standards once adopted, will be directly applicable in all the EU Member States, with an